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Yarrick: Concordat

David Annandale

‘I was wondering if we would see you here, Commissar Yarrick.’

The voice was a familiar one. I wouldn’t say it was welcome, but I did not react with immediate suspicion. There was a time before when I had.

I looked back to see Inquisitor Hektor Krauss of the Ordo Hereticus walking down the hall towards me. Superficially, he looked much as he had when we had first met on Mistral. The same iron formality and elegance in his dark cloak, vest and trousers. The same care, bordering on vanity, in the sweep of his blond hair. The same conscious patrician nobility married to the judgmental eye. But he had lived through the war on Mistral. He had experienced much of what I had, and I could see the change in him. He was more weathered around the edges and there was a new caution to him. Perhaps there was even the ability to doubt his own infallibility.

I hoped so, though I wasn’t ready to gamble on that possibility.

We were deep in the warren of the Departmento Munitorum palace on Aighe Mortis. The complex was an ugly one, a palace in name only, and thus in keeping with the vast majority of the architecture on the planet. The halls were grey rockcrete and looked damp even when they weren’t. Its vaults were prefab and crude, almost completely unadorned apart from indifferently executed aquilas. The walls were pitted and the corners were crumbling. The exterior facades of many of the planet’s buildings were so eroded by the polluted soup of the atmosphere that they looked like petrified sponge. Aighe Mortis was a hive world whose economic value was winding down. Its hundreds of billions of inhabitants lived in a civilization on borrowed time. The lucky ones would be dead before the final collapse came.

For now, though, Aighe Mortis still had a useful export: troops. Its 77th Infantry and 110th Armoured Regiments had been smashed to ruin on Mistral. It wasn’t too far from the truth to state that they still existed only because Colonel Georg Granach said they did. He had retained his command after Mistral, and he refused to let the veterans of that conflict experience the dishonour of seeing their regiments disbanded and absorbed into others. Their banner would continue to fly, and the victory on Mistral would be commemorated in their records. Because it had been a victory, hard as it was for any of us to think of it in those terms.

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